16. Of Gluttony and Feasting (Sebastian Brant Poems)
He shows a fool in every wiseWho day and night forever hiesFrom feast to feat to fill his paunchAnd make ...
He shows a fool in every wiseWho day and night forever hiesFrom feast to feat to fill his paunchAnd make ...
Sunt aliquid manes; letum non omnia finit;Luridaque evictos effugit umbra rogos. PROPERTIUS._ __To Albion's misty isle across the waves I sped ...
I've sung of Spring, her buds and flowers, Of Summer suns and Summer roses;Of golden Autumn's dreamy skies, The wealth her bounteous ...
When the arousing call of MornBreaks o'er the hills, and Day, new-born, Comes smiling from the purple East,And the pure streams ...
Letter of love so strangely thrillingWith all your countless wonder yet,Though Time our heart's hot fires have mastered,Bringing a pang ...
Hark! a voice from heaven proclaimingComfort to the mourning slave:God has heard him long complaining,And extends his arm to save;Proud ...
Sandalwood-trees with silver-grey stems-Are the first to burst aflame,As if no longer fearingTo be cheated of their birthright,In haste and ...
IOh, for the power to call to aid, of mineOwn humble Muse, the famed and sacred nine.Then might she fitly ...
Tombed in the solid night of starless space; From nearest living orb so far removed, That light, of all material ...
Preludes.I The Paragon When I behold the skies aloft ...
I'Twas eve in sunny Italy;The world was bright as earth can be,In that delightful month of June, When sun, and ...
Behold him lie in beauty and in vigor,The seventh sleeper! all the rest awakened;Behold the wing?d hours are flitting by ...
Trunks the forest yielded with gums ambrosial oozing, Boughs with apples laden beautiful, Hesperian,Golden, odoriferous, perfume exhaling about them, ...
Not the sea-wave so bellows abroad when it bursts upon shingle,Whipped from the sea's deeps up ...
The righteous, the leaders in the things that he said their power crumbling as the people came to believe Arousing ...
Marking time in pencil strokes across a virgin page and waiting for coincidence of heart-beat and second-hand, keying to the ...
"Aug." 10, 1911. Full moon to-night; and six and twenty years Since my full moon first broke from angel spheres! ...
"Aug." 10, 1911. Full moon to-night; and six and twenty years Since my full moon first broke from angel spheres! ...
My soul is awakened, my spirit is soaring, And carried aloft on the wings of the breeze; For, above, and ...
My soul is awakened, my spirit is soaring And carried aloft on the wings of the breeze; For above and ...
BOOK FIRST. I. ALL valor died not on the plains of Troy. Awake, my Muse, awake! be thine the joy ...
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